Accidental Encounter
Summary: AU: She accidentally grabbed the wrong luggage bag that leads her to meet that hot and famous blonde stranger from her university. Fem!LuffyxSabo
Genre: Alternative Universe, Fluff
Disclaimers: One Piece © by Oda Eiichiro & The quotes used in this story are not mine as well
Chorus
Makino repacked the luggage, all the while reprimanding her daughter for sneaking out the journal from the bag. It isn't something that a lady should be doing she said; whatever that means.
Luffy opted to choose Nami's family café, the Tangerine café, located at Gray Central Park for the meet up just in case the owner of the bag is a psychopath or something. No matter how amazing the poems are or how nice this Sabo dude sounded through the phone, Luffy — contrary to popular belief— is not naive to meet up with a complete stranger alone.
Luffy arrived at the café around quarter to nine, an hour before the designated time for the meet up. She went straight to the counter, where she saw Nojiko (Nami's older sister) serving the café as cashier. Nami is probably inside the kitchen helping their step father, Gen-san. The twenty year old lady looked around the café. It's still morning so the café is almost empty, except to the young man with blonde hair sitting in far corner of the café; his back was turned against Luffy.
"Hi, is Nami in here?" Luffy greeted the older lady with a bright smile as she reached the counter. Placing the luggage under the counter table.
Nojiko nodded. "Yep, she'll be out in a minute. Dad's still pissed off that she went on a date with Law without his permission last night."
Luffy chuckled, but it was not a surprising reaction from Gen-san. He's very overprotective of his daughters, especially Nami, because he's a single dad of two beautiful daughters— all according to Gen-san himself. "I told her Gen-san's going to discover that."
"Don't know why Dad doesn't like Law. I mean, he's a top notch medicine student, came from a known family from Dressrosa City, although he's an adopted son, but still Law is the next in line 'heir' to Doflamingo's wealth." Nojiko sighed, shaking her head lightly.
Luffy chuckled once again. "I'm afraid no one is worthy of Gen-san's little Nami." She joked, that was when Nami appeared the from connecting door of the adjacent kitchen.
"Don't talk." Nami glared at Luffy, who was already giving her a teasing grin, knowing her friend since diaper days that she's only going to tease her after being busted by their father. "So, you're stupid enough not to notice the bag you grabbed is not yours?"
Ouch. Nice jab. Luffy thought, but she was not offended by Nami's harsh words, knowing her orange friend meant none of her offending words. "Not my fault the luggage looked to much like mine. Have you seen the bag? Look!"
The sisters looked over the counter and spotted the red luggage full of One Piece stickers. Indeed, the girl has an unhealthy obsession over the animation about pirates that she filled her properties, like her luggage bag, with One Piece stickers and merchandise like key chain and whatnot.
Luffy looked around the café once again. Nobody has entered the café after her. Her attention was caught when the blonde man who was sitting on the table at one corner of the café turned around and looked over the entrance of the café. Luffy's jaw dropped and whipped her head back to the sisters. Her eyes are as wide as a tennis ball. Nami and Nojiko shared a confused look.
"Oh shit. Nami, it's him!" Luffy whispered in urgent tone to her orange haired friend.
Nami furrowed her eyebrows. "Who?"
"Him! That blonde hottie at table 8! He's the guy from our university!"
Nami carefully glanced at the young man, thankfully he kept his eyes at the door. "Who's he again?"
"Namiiii! He's the guy who helped me with Sterry's creepy stalking last year!"
Nami blinked her eyes before finally remembering Luffy's unfortunate issue with Sterry, a then sophomore student from their university, and his creepy stalking.
"Oh! That Mr. Knight in Shining Armour!" Nami teased, earning a childish pout partnered with a deep blush from Luffy. "Wow, he's handsome today." Nami openly staring at the side figure of the young man. Well, he's nothing compared to her boyfriend, Law, but still hot in comparison to other guy.
Luffy has caught Sterry's attention, which was a big mystery to all of them since the second year was famous of being a pervert when it comes to ladies with big boobs and curvy body, and Luffy is neither of the two. So after a whole month of being stalked by Sterry (seriously, he's always around!) even if she's being protected by her friends (Zoro, Franky, Usopp, Sanji, Brook and Chopper) during school hours, Luffy still asked Shanks to teach her self-defence moves so she can protect herself if ever Sterry tried to do something.
Sterry's stalking only stopped one day when he cornered Luffy and tried to force her to agree to be 'one of his women', Luffy was about to retaliate when this tall, blonde-haired hottie came to her rescue. He wasn't alone that time, he has his friends with him, but they let the blonde hottie to take care of Sterry. Luffy wasn't able to thank him or ask for his name and she regretted not asking him.
"What is he doing here?!" Luffy groaned as quiet as she can, she didn't want him to notice her. Especially now that she's panicking and acting like a love struck teenager caught in the act gawking at her crush.
Nojiko stared at the blond young man before noticing a red wheeled luggage underneath the man's table. "I think he's your guy, Luffy."
"What?"
Nojiko gestured at the man's table. "That's yours, I guess?"
Luffy and Nami tilted their head to glanced under the table, and sure enough Luffy found her luggage in the possession of the man she's been admiring for a very long time. And that does not helped her at all! She panicked. Double holy crap! The man she's been admiring has her luggage. Her luggage that has her clothes! Underwear! And triple holy crap! Her sketch pad! The one full of her doodles and drawings! Did she drew him on that sketch pad? She suddenly felt dizzy with all this thinking.
"Calm down, Luffy! You don't even know if he opened your bag or not!"
"What if he did?! Ugh! I don't want to give his bag back! Nami! Give it to him! Tell him you're Luffy or Luffy died and won't be able to give the bag back to him personally!"
"Nu-uh! He's your problem, besides you're worrying over nothing!"
"Nami, please!"
"No! Give the back yourself— hold on, I know that guy."
Luffy, with rigid body, turned her head back to the blonde guy's table. The black hair, freckled face guy high-five'd with the blonde guy and occupied one of the chair. The way they talk animatedly with each other showed that they are close friends, best friends maybe. Luffy lost all of her confidence of getting her bag back now.
"Wait. Luffy, I think they're looking over here!" Nami whispered, a little excited.
Luffy, who was still busy brooding whether or not to give the bag personally or anonymously, ignored Nami. She planted her forehead against the surface of the counter and started mumbling incoherent words. She heard Nami gasped and let out a light squeal before repeatedly tapping Luffy by her head.
"Luffy! Get up! The blonde haired hottie is coming over here!" When Luffy kept her position, crouched over the counter, Nami pulled few of Luffy's hair. "Luffy!" Nami growled into Luffy's ear.
When she felt the pain on her head when Nami pulled her hair, she looked up to Name and glared. "What's your problem?" Luffy asked, annoyed. Can't Nami see that she's trying to think? What got her friend so excited about?
"Excuse me?"
Luffy jumped away from seat and snapped her head towards the voice. Sure enough, the tall blonde young man was standing near her. "Uhmm..."
The blonde smiled at her and took a step forward. "You must be Luffy-san?"
It took Luffy one whole minute to process everything. When she finally realised that he got her name from the name tag on her luggage, she was quick to straightened her posture. "Yeah, that's me." Oh god, she's talking to her crush! "You're Sabo I take it?" She wanted to pat her shoulder for sounding so calm and collected, when deep inside she's in chaos.
"Yes." He said, and outstretched his hand to Luffy. "I'm Sabo Outlook. Nice to meet you."
"Monkey D. Luffy. Nice to meet you, too." She clasped her hand with Sabo's and Sabo gave her hand a firm shake before letting her go. "I guess I should give you bag back, huh?" Was her quick excuse when she suddenly felt awkward under Sabo's gaze. She turned around and quickly wheeled the bag out of bar. Luffy handed the luggage back to Sabo, and in return Sabo gave her bag back to her, as well.
There was an awkward silence. And Luffy could feel Nami, Nojiko and the freckled face dude watching her and Sabo's interaction. Luffy was also sure that Nami's grinning teasingly at her. The damn neko.
"Can I get you a coffee or something? For an apology of taking your bag in mistake." Sabo timidly chuckled while he scratched the side of his neck, Luffy found this gesture cute and attractive.
Luffy, for the first time, smiled at Sabo. "Thanks, but I took your bag by mistake as well so it's not big deal." She laughed lightly, and was inwardly curious why Sabo is blushing. "To spare us with this awkwardness, I guess we could say that we both rifled each other's bag, huh?" She joked, ending her sentence with a playful wink.
Waaiiiit! Is she flirting?! How come she knew how to flirt?! Oh god, Nami is so going to tease her later for this!
Sabo gave her skittish grin before letting out a full chuckle. Luffy has to swallowed hard when she saw his Adam's apple moved as he mirth.
"The offer stand still if we see each other in the campus again, though." Sabo said, sounding a little bit hopeful. "Well, I'll see you around, Luffy-san." He said and he began to turn his back at her.
There was a tinged of desperation to keep Sabo in front of her blossomed in her chest that caused her to panic a little. "Thank you." She suddenly said making Sabo stopped on his track and looked at her again with furrowed eyebrows. "Err... I don't know if you still remember me, but you once saved me from the bas— I mean, from the creepy Sterry one year ago. I uhh never got the chance to thank you, so... thanks for helping back then."
Sabo stared at her again, and his baby blue eyes twinkled in recognition. "So that was really you..." he mumbled to himself, but Luffy couldn't hear him.
"What?"
Sabo quickly shook his head. "Nothing, but you're welcome." He was silent again. And this time the visible reluctance of ending the conversation was too evident on Sabo, as well. Luffy couldn't helped but to feel she have a chance. "Listen, if I ever want to get a chance of treating you a coffee or dinner or something... can I have your number?"
"But don't you have my number?" Luffy answered, confused.
"No, I mean your personal number. I kind of noticed that you're using your landline so, I'm hoping that you have your own contact so I can text you or something." Sabo was cute when he blushed. That's what Luffy thought before she let out a soft laugh while she fished out her iPhone from her pocket and exchanged contact details with Sabo.
"I'll hold you on that treating me to dinner someday, then." Luffy said, giving Sabo a flirtatious smile, something she didn't know she can do, as well. Geeeez, she's starting to discover her flirtatious side all of a sudden!
Sabo, too, gave her a knee-melting, too dazzling smile. "Definitely." He answered with a nod.
"I probably should come out clean, but I kind of peeked inside your bag and saw your journal." When Sabo remained quiet, Luffy thought she offended him. So, she immediately bowed and apologised. "I'm sorry!"
Sabo twitched when Luffy bowed and was quick to respond, "No need to do that!" He grabbed Luffy by her shoulders and forced her to face him. He was sporting a deep red hue across his cheeks, as if he's embarrassed about something. "I uhh kind of looked inside your bag, too. But it wasn't my idea." Sabo then craned his neck to her freckled face friend and gave him a glare. Said friend only gave Sabo an impish grin.
Sabo brought his attention back to Luffy, his face where turning into deeper shade of red remembering the undergarments that greeted him after opening the luggage. Sabo inhaled and exhaled to calm himself. "We opened your bag and I saw your sketch pad. But don't worry, I only looked a couple of pages. But you have an amazing talent in drawing, Luffy-san. I was really impressed. Your drawings looked so much alive the more I stare at it."
Luffy grinned. "Yours, too. Your poems and lyrics are amazing, and sweet and..." Luffy felt like she and Sabo are the only one inside the café. That the world suddenly stopped moving. She felt an invisible force pulling her to the blonde man. The seconds of staring at Sabo's baby blue eyes felt like an eternity, and it was only then that she realised that she and Sabo are now standing toe in toe to each other. "And... your words made me want to feel what falling in love means..." she whispered.
She could feel Sabo's warm breathing hitting her face, she was acutely aware that they are both slowly crossing the distance between them. When she could almost feel his lips against her, it was only then when Ace (the freckled face guy) interrupted them.
"Sabo! We're gonna be late in school!" Ace called out, but they could also sense the mockery in his voice.
"Damn it, Ace." Sabo cursed, keeping his close distance to Luffy. The young lady has no plan of breaking away from the warm emitting from Sabo, as well. "Uhm, good bye." He said and quickly turned around.
Luffy felt the twinged of disappointment while watching Sabo walking away from her. But she blinked her eyes when he suddenly turned around and paced back to her. She was even more surprised when Sabo gave her a quick and clumsy kiss on the cheek. "I'll call you tonight." He whispered into her ears before turning his back again and pulled his grinning friend towards the door.
Luffy was left staring into the air while her brain tried to process the whole incident. She could still feel the lingering warmth of Sabo's lips over her cheek, so she slowly grazed her fingertips against her flushed cheek.
At first she just grinned.
Then she chuckled.
And then she finally squealed in high tone before crouching down the floor and cupped her grinning face with her palms.
"I think Aunt Makino's going to be thrilled that her only daughter is finally turning into a full blown lady in love?" Luffy heard Nojiko jived while she and her sister watched Luffy crouched down the floor; giggling all the way.
Nami laughed lightly, but nodded her head in agreement. "Yeah, and Shanks' not going to be happy about it, as well Zoro and the other boys." She can already imagine Zoro and the others forming a group to interrogate Sabo, if he's a suitable boyfriend for Luffy. They all tend to baby the girl, even if she's not the youngest of their circle of friends, because she act like the spoiled youngest sibling of their group; especially the boys. Wonder how will they take the news that Luffy is finally in love and in schedule of date with Sabo.
Luffy ignored Nami and Nojiko, all she could think off is the promised date with Sabo. She felt her phone vibrated inside her pocket. Luffy quickly pulled her phone and what greeted her was a short message from Sabo.
Do you think we can meet again in Gray Central Park tomorrow afternoon? I'll treat you with lunch. - Sabo
Luffy giggled and typed her response.
It's a date, then. - Luffy
Great! And, I'm really excited to see you again tomorrow. - Sabo
Me, too, Sabo. - Luffy
Luffy rolled over the floor, laughing and squealing all the while. Nojiko and Nami sweat-dropped, but only laughed while watching Luffy's reaction. Nami was fascinated to see Luffy giggling like a teen age girl in love for the first time, and she decided to postpone her teasing for another time, leaving Luffy to immersed herself with the feeling of falling in love.
Damn.
She really need to ask her Dad to accept Law as her boyfriend, because seeing Luffy giggling like a fool to her phone, Nami wanted to go on a date with Law, but this time with the permission of her father.
THE END
Excuse me for OOCness :D I really need Luffy to act like a teen age girl in love.
And I'm planning of writing a chapter with Sabo's POV. But for now, this story is complete!
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See you again :)
Love lots,
Gummy :)